Also known as The Wind Tunnel. It’s not too bad this time of year, but in the dead of winter walking through it can be brutal.
Category: Photography
Tornado Warning
Stormdog
Awkward Lying Dog
Awkward Sitting Dog
It stormed, and Thomas was not impressed. Then the tornado warning sirens began, and we went to the basement, and he still wasn’t impressed.
I know quite a few people with storm-phobic dogs, and it is no picnic, so I’m really thankful that Thomas isn’t bothered.
Bee and Skipper
Bumblebee and Zinnia
Hobomok Skipper
Fortress of Solitude
I had a moment of panic, because I couldn’t find Polly. Apparently she’d been having some personal time in the dog crate. The dog crate that the dog will not enter. At least someone is getting some use out of it.
Autumn: The Sneezening
Does giant ragweed serve any purpose beyond making people miserable? There’s a huge stand of it behind my building, with some sections over 10 feet tall. It’s evil, evil, evil stuff.
But there are also butterflies, and butterflies make everything better.
Female Eastern tiger swallowtail butterfly
Saturday’s Butterflies
Male Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
I usually take Thomas in three thirty-minute walks a day. Not a lot of exercise for a young Boxer mix! It takes the edge off, though. Today, on all three walks, it started pouring rain half-way through. I have wet clothes draped over everything, drying.
Thomas and Harriet
Thomas 2016
Harriet 2007
Sometimes Thomas reminds me so much of Harriet that I can hardly stand it.
Three Weeks
This is your obligatory three week adoptaversary post. I think I’ll keep him.
Today’s Butterfly
There’s another tattered male Eastern tiger swallowtail flitting around the zinnias today.
Happy 19th Amendment Day!
On this day in 1920 the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified.
![Penn[sylvania] on the picket line-- 1917](https://c6.staticflickr.com/9/8492/28451924053_7ebce43f9b_z.jpg)
Penn[sylvania] on the picket line– 1917
Source: Harris & Ewing, Washington, D.C. [Pennsylvania on the Picket Line– 1917]. 1917. Image. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/item/mnwp000212/. (Accessed August 18, 2016.)
Summary: Photograph of fourteen suffragists in overcoats on picket line, holding suffrage banners in front of the White House. One banner reads: “Mr. President How Long Must Women Wait For Liberty”. White House visible in background.
red paper boat 